THE MODERN AT THE MoMA, NEW YORK, NY - When the Museum of Modern Art began development of the new museum restaurant, the visitor cafe and other related food service areas in its new building, it selected Bentel & Bentel on the basis of our firm’s extraordinary reputation in hospitality design. The centerpiece of this project is the 330-seat ground floor restaurant and private function rooms. The new facility is located at the nexus between the original museum building by Edward Stone, the adjacent museum annex by Philip Johnson and the new museum facility designed by the Japanese architect, Taniguchi. Our solution is elegant and simple. It involves the insertion of sinuous lighted glass walls that both bind the spaces straddling different building areas and separate the components of bar, casual dining and fine dining with gauzy veils of light. Each of the components of the restaurant such as the wine rack, the bar and custom seating units will reiterate the central theme of warm, modern design finely executed in rich materials.
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